Fence



(No Model.)

A. DEAL.

FENCE.

Patented Mar. 4, 1890.

N. PEHS. PhnlmLilhogrnpher, Wnshinginn, DC.

Imran tor:

Anvneal/ UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANSON DEAL, OF KENTON, OHIO.

FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 422,574, dated March 4, 1890.

l Application iiled May 23, 1889. Serial No. 311,825. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom it mag/concern:

Be it known that I, ANSON DEAL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kenton, in the county of I-Iardin and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Fence, of which the following' is a specification. My invention relates to improvements in fences; and it consist-s in certain novel features, hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of my improved fence. Fig. 2 is an end view of the same. Fig. 3 is an env larged detail view showing more clearly the arrangement of the supporting-wires My improvement relates especially to that class of fences known as the stake-andrider variety, and the stakes A A and the riders B are of the usual construction and arrangement. The riders are held in the upper forks of the stakes by means of the wire which have their ends secured to the stakes,

near the lower ends of the same, and are then extended inward, passing each other beneath the panel-rails, and then carried up on opposite sides of the said panel-rails and the rail E, being crossed above the said rail E, and then carried upward to the loop C, and have their upper ends secured to the said loop. The supporting-wires G are bound around the panel-rails by means of the tie-wires I-I, which are passed around the said supportingwires and between the rails at various points.

At various points along the fence I provide the inclined longitudinally-arraiiged braces I, which have their upper ends secured to the upper ends of the stakes of one panel by the binding-wires J, and have their intermediate portions secured to the panels by means of the wires K, which are passed around the braces and the rails At the corner-posts of the fence I provide the anchor-stakes L, which are secured to the stakes A by the wires M, as shown. These anchor-stakes prevent the fence being blown over.

From the foregoing description, taken iii connection with the accompanying drawings, it will be seen that I have provided a fence which is strong and durable, and which can be very easily and rapidly built. The braces effectuallyprevent the fence sagging endwise, as when the fence settles the braces will be caused to settle at the same time and consequently forced into the ground, so that they will be more rmly secured and furnish a stronger support for the rails.

The peculiar method of supporting the rails will be found of especial advantage, as the weight cf the rails is thereby thrown onto the hangers or supporting-wires, and the said wires thereby drawn downward, so as to cause the loops O and the several tie-wires to be stretched and bind tightly around the rails and stakes, so as to draw the same firmly together, and the more the fence settles the more firmly the several parts will be drawn together.

The location of the top panel-rail close up within the notch below the crossing-point of the stakes, prevents the latter from coming together, and the loop D supports this rail iii that position. At the same time the settling of the supporting'wires G will draw said rail downward, so they are crossed above it; but such downward tendency will be resisted by the loop D. Altogether the rails B and E and their loops C and D brace the stakes very irmly, while the tension of the supportingwires G,beiiig applied to the loops Gbetween their points of support, serve to embed said loops in the wood and to hold the stakes most rigidly in position.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, s-

In a fence, the combination, with the crossed stakes A, the top rails or riders B, rest-ing in the notches above their points of crossing, and the loops C, passing over said riders and around the upper ends of the stakes, of the top panel-rails E, 'fitting in the notches be- IOO 10W said points of crossing, the supporting- In testimony that I Claim the foregoing as loops D passing beneath said top panelrails 1n y own I have hereto aixed my signature in and around the stakes, the Supportingavires presence of two witnesses.

G, connected at their upper ends to said IoopS 5 Cbetween the ilnpingng points of the latter ANSON DEAL.

against the stakes and riders, and thence led downward and crossed above said top panol- XVitnesSeS: rail E, and panel-rails F, carried by said sup- J. II. MORRISON, porting-wires, the Whole combined as and for JAS. C. IIOWE.

1o the purpose set forth. 

